Posted on 12/15/2020 9:50:44 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Multimillionaire televangelist Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Texas netted $4.4 million in bailouts through the federal COVID-19 relief program, records show.
The Houston megachurch, the largest in the nation with 52,000 weekly congregants, received the forgivable Paycheck Protection Program loan in late July, the Houston Business Journal reported Sunday.
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2. Why is there animosity to his church apparently participating in the paycheck protection program? If his church has employees who were kept on the payroll and avoided unemployment, due to legally participating in this program, why is there hostility to a legal business getting legal benefits of some sort?
I think his church has enough monies to continue to pay his employees. His daddy was a hell fire and brimstone preacher who preached the way to heaven or hell.....your choice. Joel preaches monetary success which is fine and dandy but what does it profit a man to gain the world and lose his own soul? I don’t trust these “financial” televangelists......but that’s just me.
If the church is shut down how do you pay your employees.
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Same way you paid them before if you’ve taught your church members properly. Tithing isn’t contingent on you being physically in church.
It’s a ‘don’t have to payback loan’ if the money was used for salaries of employees
True.
Whoa.
Our small church of 150 went to the parking lot service over local transmitter and Facebook during the spring/summer shutdown and we never missed a payment to any employee or vendor, and in fact our weekly offerings went up, we were over our projected budget by the end of the fiscal year September first and we took no PPP or government money. In fact we had to fight off our idiot governor and local health department apparatchiks who tried to shut us down because someone heard one of the pastors messages on facebook and got their panties in a wad and filed a complaint on us with the health department—they failed despite threats of sending the state police to shut us down.
The Mormons call it Bleed the Beast.
I recommend we all bleed the beast, get your share before the failed Republic runs out of money. It is your money.
little people lost everything and yet we have millions for indian casinos and mega churches.
He is a POS
A boil on the butt of the “Body of Christ.”
Beat me to it. I may disagree with his church philosophy and other things about him but this is a legal program designed by the Feds to keep people employed. If he has complied with the rules the loan is up to 100% forgivable. If he has not complied with all of the rules he will have to pay it back with interest.
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